Definition of pigment

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Pigment (n.) Any material from which a dye, a paint, or the like, may be prepared; particularly, the refined and purified coloring matter ready for mixing with an appropriate vehicle..

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Orpiment :: Orpiment (n.) Arsenic sesquisulphide, produced artificially as an amorphous lemonyellow powder, and occurring naturally as a yellow crystalline mineral; -- formerly called auripigment. It is used in king's yellow, in white Indian fire, and in certain technical processes, as indigo printing..
Urobilin :: Urobilin (n.) A yellow pigment identical with hydrobilirubin, abundant in the highly colored urine of fever, and also present in normal urine. See Urochrome..
Uroerythrin :: Uroerythrin (n.) A reddish urinary pigment, considered as the substance which gives to the urine of rheumatism its characteristic color. It also causes the red color often seen in deposits of urates..
Melanosis :: Melanosis () The morbid deposition of black matter, often of a malignant character, causing pigmented tumors..
Verdigris :: Verdigris (n.) A green poisonous substance used as a pigment and drug, obtained by the action of acetic acid on copper, and consisting essentially of a complex mixture of several basic copper acetates..
Cinnabar :: Cinnabar (n.) The artificial red sulphide of mercury used as a pigment; vermilion.
Chloasma :: Chloasma (n.) A cutaneous affection characterized by yellow or yellowish brown pigmented spots.
Impasto :: Impasto (n.) The thickness of the layer or body of pigment applied by the painter to his canvas with especial reference to the juxtaposition of different colors and tints in forming a harmonious whole.
Pigmental :: Pigmental (a.) Alt. of Pigmentar.
Color :: Color (n.) That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors..
Muller :: Muller (n.) A stone or thick lump of glass, or kind of pestle, flat at the bottom, used for grinding pigments or drugs, etc., upon a slab of similar material..
Red :: Red (n.) A red pigment.
Sealing Wax :: Sealing wax () A compound of the resinous materials, pigments, etc., used as a material for seals, as for letters, documents, etc..
Cassius :: Cassius (n.) A brownish purple pigment, obtained by the action of some compounds of tin upon certain salts of gold. It is used in painting and staining porcelain and glass to give a beautiful purple color. Commonly called Purple of Cassius..
Turacou :: Turacou (n.) Any one of several species of plantain eaters of the genus Turacus, native of Africa. They are remarkable for the peculiar green and red pigments found in their feathers..
Vehicle :: Vehicle (n.) Any liquid with which a pigment is applied, including whatever gum, wax, or glutinous or adhesive substance is combined with it..
Pigment :: Pigment (n.) Wine flavored with species and honey.
Mitter''s Green :: Mitter's green () A pigment of a green color, the chief constituent of which is oxide of chromium..
Pentacrinin :: Pentacrinin (n.) A red and purple pigment found in certain crinoids of the genus Pentacrinus.
Yellow :: Yellow (n.) A yellow pigment.
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